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By Jane Austen
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material.
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- Emma (first edition, three volumes), 1816 · Volume III, chapter XIII, p. 249
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- Internet Archive (scan of the first edition, London: printed for John Murray, 1816)
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From the narration of Jane Austen's novel Emma, as printed in the first edition (London: John Murray, title page dated 1816). The narrator is describing a private conversation between Emma and Mr. Knightley, in which they at last come to understand each other.